Chapter 282: Hurry up

The defeat of LeBron James and the Cavaliers is just an episode of the Celtics regular season. After the end of the unrelenting passion at the beginning of the season, a team needs a reasonable and efficient tactical system and a stable Rotation to support the team in the deeper regular season to win. Beginning in mid-November, the Celtics began to enter a continuous home and away round of battles. 12 consecutive games, all of which are one home and one away game system. This is not only challenging the physical strength of the Celtics players. Energy is also challenging Leon's time.
Due to the obstruction of the lawyer, the trial of Leon’s of Frank was delayed, and Leon began to enter and exit the police station and inspection agencies more and more frequently to be investigated. During the second half of November, Leon was not allowed to Do not choose to only participate in the home game, and give up going to the away game. This had a certain impact on the Celtics' record. On the 21st, his mother lost to the Philadelphia 76ers on the road. Allen Iverson gave it to the Celtics with a 45-point scoring performance. The second game of the season failed.
After that, the Celtics maintained the rhythm of winning three or four games and losing one. They stumbled through November. After playing the Denver Nuggets on December 7, the Celtics won 15 games in the first 20 games. 5 negative record, a good record, but it seems to be a little bit away from people's expectations. After all, in the eyes of many people, this Celtics should surpass the 1986 champion team. But they still lost some games that shouldn’t be lost. The points difference of the few games they lost was within 5 points. It seems that they still lack some sure offense and dribble at the critical moment, even if they have Paul. -Pierce.
It is worth mentioning that except for the loss to the Chicago Bulls, the other four lost Fox-Leon games are not there. It seems that Carlisle has not been able to grasp this team well, which also caused him to suffer. After a lot of criticism from the local Boston media, some mean reporters even ridiculed Rick Carlisle by extracting Leon’s previous comment that
tether a dog
can win.
However, after entering December, the Celtics started to have more home courts, and Leon also returned to the arena to participate in consecutive games with the team, and summarized and compensated for the game situation in training. The team's record began to pick up quickly, they played a wave of five consecutive victories in early December, almost every game they beat their opponents by more than 15 points.
Michael Reid played his best form during this time. In the game against the Seattle SuperSonics, he scored a career-high 39 points against Ray Allen, shot 6 of 7 three-pointers and also Created his own records for the number of three-pointers and shooting percentage. The Celtics beat the Sonics at home.
On December 14th, Leon’s days when he couldn’t play with the team in a row were finally coming to an end. His case was officially opened in the Boston District Court at 10 am. A group of Celtic management personnel including Khomeinis, Palliuca and Danny Angie attended the trial. After two hours of trial, court debate and jury deliberations, Leon was Convicted of excessive defense, the judge sentenced Fox Leon to one month's imprisonment with a suspended execution. Leon was sentenced to probation as a supervision probation. During the probation period, he not only had to abide by laws and regulations, but he also had to report regularly to his probation officer and state his recent situation.
This is much better than reporting every time you leave Boston during bail. The period of regular reporting is about a week. Leon only needs to set aside a few hours a week to meet with his probation officer. Others He can follow the team to go out and play normally at all times. As long as there is no illegal record within two months, then one month's imprisonment can be exempted and everything will be back to normal at that time.
This is the ending that everyone would like to see. After the judge pronounced the sentence, Khomeinis rushed up and gave Leon a suffocating hug. Because of this accident, she lost a lot of weight in the past two months. Angie and Palliuca also came forward to congratulate Leon, who were able to get rid of this incident, and the media reporters also rushed up to interview Leon.
However, the criminal part of this case is over, but the civil part has just begun. Leon knows that this is the real battlefield of this lawsuit. If he loses, he will not be harmed, but he will face huge compensation. This compensation may not require him to pay all, the Celtics, insurance companies and Palliuca will be responsible for a large part of it, but he does not want to see Frank get a large amount of money so easily.
Therefore, on December 15th, one day after the criminal verdict in the Fox-Leon case in which Frank was injured, at 10:30 in the morning, the civil lawsuit in this case was heard in the Massachusetts State Court. Unlike the criminal case, the civil jury is temporarily appointed by the court to find citizens who have nothing to do with basketball as much as possible to ensure that Leon’s coaching status will not affect the verdict.
Leon also saw Frank at the court hearing. There were bruises on his face and a brace on his nose. The bridge of his nose had been broken by Leon. This unbeatable gang boss looked like a postman who fell half-dead on a bicycle.
The trial was unsuccessful as expected. Within half an hour of the court debate, two jurors were pointed out by the plaintiff’s lawyers that they had participated in sports activities, and they might sympathize with the Celtics coach Leon again and hope Kay The Alters were able to achieve good results and were assigned to replace by the judge. Such a substitution may be detrimental to Leon, because psychologically speaking, the alternate juror should try not to favor Leon as much as possible in order to avoid the problems of the previous jurors, and may even be overcorrected.
Unlike the presumption of innocence in criminal litigation, civil litigation is a liability system. As Leon attacked Frank as a fact, compensation is inevitable. It's just that in civil litigation, the jury can decide whether it is illegal or the amount of compensation. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s lawyer tried his best to show the damage that Leon’s punch brought to Frank, and pointed out that he was attacked suddenly without any preparation. For this reason, Frank reduced the tens of millions of dollars in compensation that the Lion had previously opened. 5 million dollars. But this is a high enough number.
On the other hand, Leon pointed out the various crimes committed by Frank in the past to prove that Leon's motive for this punch was not deliberate injury, but self-defense and revenge.
In short, both sides are trying their best to win the jury's emotional tilt, which is crucial to the final verdict.
The trial lasted for more than two hours, during which nearly half an hour was discussed by the jury. As to whether Leon violated the law and how much should be compensated, it was impossible to reach a unified opinion. The jury is not a simple minority obeying the majority, but an absolute majority. In Massachusetts, a 10-to-2 verdict is required. Ten of the 12 jurors must agree to make a verdict.
As the negotiation failed, the judge announced the postponement of the retrial. The next court appearance is expected to be in January next year.
After leaving the court ~EbookFREE.me~ Leon looked hurried. He refused all interviews from reporters and left the state court with Khomeinis by car.
"You need to take a good rest. It has been hard for you to appear in court for these two consecutive days." Khomeinis said to Leon in the car. This strong woman, who is already well-known in Los Angeles, is like a cat in front of Leon.
"No, I have booked the ticket and will leave at two o'clock in the afternoon." Leon refused because he was going to the game with the Celtics. The Celtics left Boston for their road trip yesterday, so Carlisle failed to attend Leon's trial.
"You don't need to be like this..."
"The team needs me."
"I need you too……"
Leon looked at the Khomeini ribbon with a pleading look, thought about it, took out two tickets from his pocket, and said: "So I bought one for you too, come with me, just the last stop It's Los Angeles..."
So, the two took the plane to Minnesota, the first stop of the Celtics' road trip. (To be continued.)